The tallest waterfall in West Virginia.

Once home to a thriving oil industry, this town now sits eerily abandoned.

A lighthouse on this West Virginia lake started as a joke, then the forces of nature helped make it a reality.

Endless rows of boxes of paper records line the hallways of the archaic federal facility where guns are traced.

This colorful West Virginia cowboy greets passersby with a glassy stare.

The actor best known for slapstick comedy is memorialized in his home town.

The first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in literature came from the foothills of Appalachia.

Thousands of tiny squares in different colors make up this piece of street art.

The largest piece of cut lead crystal adorned a grave for 75 years and is now the shining star of a glass museum.

A memorial in coal country commemorates the victims of an all-too-preventable mining disaster.

A beautiful hidden gem in central West Virginia.

This shale formation along the Appalachian Trail once inspired the third president of the United States.

In an odd geographic anomaly this city borders two different states on opposite sides of town.

A giant time capsule not scheduled to be cored until 2040.

The isolated final resting place for perished coal miners.

Winding country roads in eastern West Virginia lead to an extraordinary place populated by fiberglass giants.

A monument marks the location of the first successful steamboat demonstration.

In 1952, a strange encounter in the woods of West Virginia led to the legend of a 10-foot-tall monster with glowing eyes and a distinctive style.

This university transit system is a 1970's vision of the future.

Two gems of Beaux Arts architecture that have been sitting vacant for years.

Spectacular mineral formations fill these caves, which have been used for everything from smoking meat to stashing illicit liquor.

The highest point in Maryland is only accessible by hiking through another state.

A melancholy guardian doubles as a judicious godmother to this small town cemetery.

This tiny man looms large over downtown Charleston.